If the Higgs particle is found, who wins the Nobel?
AUG 05, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024562
Nature : As the Large Hadron Collider approaches its full operating strength, the question of who might win a Nobel Prize for predicting the existence of the accelerator’s main quest, the Higgs particle, is becoming more fraught. The “problem” is that six theorists working in three groups made essentially the same prediction at around the same time. Alfred Nobel’s will stipulates that no more than three people may share a prize. Nature‘s Zeeya Merali reports on the brewing controversy in the particle-physics community.
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